plugin-container.exe
Summary
Firefox Plugin Container - sandboxed process for running browser plugins and content in Firefox.
plugin-container.exe is the 1113th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,598 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox and it is most often launched by firefox.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox89.86%
- C:\Users\...5.13%
- C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox5.01%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 9e9b46d9c3969cfe0ff78ec5c70dd2a74b9f3a9c8632c975b565b64c81cff04322.58%
- 891258f1ac8e217edbbe70fb89fe20090cee946cefc9737df6f4f01a0457393218.36%
- 99318d635ff7c9518ce6eb093121c2c3746ba72b063c0baa73749abad88da58812.08%
- de73036bf700e3346cb9c2615eb21f209bc4c81069efbf785f71f526b370f5c63.4%
- d8b3e498a27321aa112498145364877289b3245ea8019ce653cf6ea795340d492.7%
- 806b2c8dd60bc56341b8bc798cbaf0506d11a2759e1fb44c95744e1a9de215ab2.45%
- ba3533d9f3d8437209bab215dbdc4ab6b90fd07e3190711c5eb74da3c90fa3fe2.39%
- 05df12a616eb9fb9d5b2ea541d971efba984b45e5f1d23ad67088f16cadd4cce2.33%
- c60d08fcb1b74d1db9f7a766607418d1d0e88fc129ca3d4e600227becd843a6c2.26%
- 95879d3e3da539c367804b34d876fa7ac1e06b3b955d395179905dc4ab0784372.2%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe67.12%
- KeePass.exe14.81%
- updater.exe11.01%
- OUTLOOK.EXE5.03%
- firefox.exe0.95%
- HelpPane.exe0.27%
- FoxitReader.exe0.14%
- OpenWith.exe0.14%
- Dropbox.exe0.07%
Top Parents
- firefox.exe100%
Top Children
- WerFault.exe1.2%
- jp2launcher.exe0.09%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.